The South Central Regional Training Institute serves the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. As part of a global network of some 300 training institutes worldwide the South Central Regional Training Institute, through its programs and activities, provides the people of the region with a potent means to contribute to the betterment of their society.
The training institute strives to create spaces that are open to all people of every age, race, and religion. To build a better world requires an ever-growing pool of people capable of contributing to the accomplishment of the myriad tasks at hand. As collaborators in the training institute children, junior youth, youth, and adults engage in an on-going conversation about the advancement of civilization through the application of Bahá’í principles, such as peace, justice, and the unity of humankind, which constitutes the basis of the materials studied.
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“The importance of education to a Bahá’í conception of spiritual and social transformation can hardly be overestimated. “Consider”, Bahá’u’lláh states, “the revelation of the light of the Name of God, the Educator. Behold, how in all things the evidences of such a revelation are manifest, how the betterment of all beings dependeth upon it.” The significance of education in the work of community building is unmistakable, and in the field of social action the provision of education remains the signature contribution of Bahá’ís in most parts of the world. Pre-eminent among the structures and agencies created by the Bahá’í world to offer education is, of course, the training institute.”
“Increasingly, participation in institute courses is preparing the friends of God for an ever deeper engagement in the life of the wider community; it is endowing them with the knowledge, insights, and skills that enable them to contribute not only to the process of developing their own community, but to the progress of society. In short, the institute is a potent means for the society-building power of the Faith to find release.”
From the Universal House of Justice, letter of 30 December 2021
